JPost - Large IDF and Border Police forces were expected to continue searching Sunday morning in the town of Beit Iksa for a suspect in the stabbing of a Jewish youth in Jerusalem’s Ramot neighborhood Saturday, Army Radio reported.
A 17-year-old Jewish boy was stabbed by an Arab man in the capital’s Ramot neighborhood on Saturday afternoon.
Seth and Hindy Poupko Galena honored the memory of their beloved daughter, two year old Ayelet, and shared reminiscences of love and caring. Each word tore at the hearts of the thousands who came to share the young parents’ grief. The outpouring of those who came to mourn with the Galenas mirrored their lives. Both are actively involved in both the Jewish and the wider community. Hindy is the Director for Israel and international Affairs of the Jewish Community Relations [...]
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Being Jewish and an artist for me is following a family tradition that is now somehow part of Art History. To be the son of an incredibly talented artist and a great humanitarian is a path that took years to develop, slowly and respectfully. My father created some of the most extraordinary Judaic art, pieces that always allied beauty and spirituality to the highest form. A few months ago I was asked by a dear friend of mine in Miami [...]
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With less than a minute to play in the biggest football game of his life, Jewish punter Josh Miller wanted a ham sandwich. “I was hungry,” he said in an interview with JointMedia News Service, recalling one of his many thoughts from Super Bowl XXXIX, when his New England Patriots edged the Philadelphia Eagles, 24-21. Miller played an important role in the Patriots’ third NFL championship. With time running out, he booted the ball with enough backspin that it was downed at the Eagles’ [...]
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When the New York Giants and New England Patriots take the field for Sunday’s Super Bowl, most of the country will focus on the athletes wearing the jerseys. However, from a Jewish perspective, the story behind these football franchises comes from those wearing suits in the owner’s box. The Giants are co-owned by the Tisch family, with film and television producer Steve Tisch, son of Bob, as the team’s chairman and executive vice president. Bob’s brother, Larry, was the father [...]
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There are two ways to raise your children: you either shut them down or you open them up. If you shut them down you raise them in a zero-sum world of winners and losers. You teach them that the world is a pie of fixed size, and that if they want more they must see that others have less or perhaps nothing at all. This is a fearful world of endless and often violent competition and retribution; a world of [...]
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From that day on David looked at his work in a different light, David now sees his work not so much as a personal expression, but as a soul expression;
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NY Times – KIRYAT SHMONA – This city is one of Israel’s smallest, a hardscrabble place with a population of 23,000 that is less than two miles from the Lebanese border and through the decades has repeatedly found itself caught in the crossfire of Arab-Israeli strife. In 1974, Kiryat Shmona was the scene of a terrorist attack in which 18 Israelis, many of them children, were killed. Rockets have clobbered the town during cross-border fighting. Underground shelters are as familiar [...]
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JTA – Before the Maccabeats created a sensation on YouTube with their Chanukah song, and before the scores of individuals recorded Jewish parodies on video, and before Jewish outreach organizations used popular music to connect with unaffiliated Jews, there was Lenny Solomon and Shlock Rock. For 25 years the Jewish rock band has been teaching Jewish ideas through music using song parodies, original music in English and Hebrew, and children’s songs. Read full story.
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